Can someone please explain to me the fascination with Jeff Fisher? I'm curious how his record at Tennessee somehow makes him desirable. His teams the past few years aren't doing very well, & I defy you to tell me the players he's drafted are the type you'd want playing for the Cowboys. Do you really want those thugs & criminals being drafted by the Cowboys--ESPECIALLY given the notoriety of the Cowboys from the Irvin days? Peter King phrases it pretty well on his MMQB--that Jones is indeed looking at Fisher, but because Fisher will go along with whoever Jones drafts.
A college coach like Stoops or any other flavor of the day? Hmmm.... I seem to recall people claiming that Spurrier or Davis or Erickson would be the next great coach. Cough. And Saban is really tearing up the league this year.
Most teams need a good QB to make them or break them. (As I recall, the Pats didn't look too good last night when Brady did poorly. Tell me they'd be where they are without Brady, genius tho people claim Belichick is.) Cowher was doing fairly poorly until he found Big Ben (got him BECAUSE they'd had such a bad year the year before). Billick had been doing pretty poorly the last couple of years until he hit a hot hand with a recycled QB (who he'd better hope stays healthy). Gruden is still trying to get a QB who's consistent. Holmgren coached in Seattle for how many years before even winning one playoff game, but hit it right with Hasselbeck. Fox has a good QB in Delhomme--but they're at 4-4 right along with us. Schottenheimer still hasn't won a playoff game. And there's no way Payton would be looking like a genius right now if Brooks were still playing for NO. He's had the fortune of a good QB who needed a job, a team that actually has a home this year, & a pretty good nucleus of players who were in place.
It's absolutely disappointing that the team is at 4-4 right now. But Parcells seems to have found a QB who looks pretty good. I'm not annointing him the new Aikman just yet, but he's been very impressive so far. There's clearly some undisciplined behavior that needs to be addressed. The HC absolutely has to take the ultimate responsibility, but I wonder if some of it is youngsters still looking for a locker room leader & the distractions that, yes, TO has brought--along with Jerry constantly making excuses for him. What kind of a message has that sent to the team? I still have hope for this year, & I get really excited thinking what next year will look like with Romo starting from Day One--& hopefully TO & his circus act gone. (I'm betting our record this year would be better than it is now if Romo had started from the first day--& given Jerry's comments, it appears he was really the driving one on keeping Bledsoe in. I have a sneaking suspicion we'd be one or two games better.)
As someone else pointed out, this tiresome thread pops up every time there's a loss. A replacement coach is just like a backup QB--everyone's fantasy until they actually get the job. Once they do...well, how long did it take for this team to find Romo? Or the Steelers to find Big Ben?
I go back to what I asked initially. Could someone please explain to me what Fisher (or any other coach) would bring--other than that he's not Parcells? Be careful what you wish for, but I'm really baffled on what Fisher would somehow magically do that Parcells hasn't. Other than draft a bunch of jailbirds (if he's allowed to do any drafting at all).
Or even Jimmy Johnson. Again--be careful what you wish for. Skins fans thought Gibbs would be the next coming as well. It's difficult to go home again. And Jimmy has a track record after his magic days. He didn't exactly light things up in Miami. For those that want to argue Parcells is purely the result of Belichick, you could make the same argument that JJ is the result of Turner & his other assistants.
